Word: spotlighting
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...Gavin, we hope you don’t wanna be the only one in the spotlight, because you’re going to be sharing it...with the Wu-Tang Clan. In light of their upcoming performance at Yardfest, FM sat down with Wu-Tang member Raekwon to talk about tattoos, 3EB, and successful pick-up lines...
...government knew "from day one," says a senior Western diplomat, that "a successful bid for the Games would bring an unprecedented - and in some cases very harsh - spotlight" on China and how it is governed. On the other side, everyone from human-rights activists to independence-seeking dissidents in Tibet and Xinjiang - "splittists" in the vernacular of Chinese officialdom - knew that they would have an opportunity to push their agendas with the world watching. "Though the specific trigger for this in Tibet is still unclear, that it intensified so quickly is probably not just an accident," the Western diplomat says...
...ECAC tournaments.Now the Crimson returns to the Frozen Four led by a core group of five players who have all been there before—Vaillancourt and seniors Caitlin Cahow, Brenna McLean, Laura Brady, and Jessica MacKenzie.Stone will look to the veterans to keep Harvard focused in the national spotlight.“There’s a lot of hype around the national championship, and I think they’ll help to settle the younger players down,” Stone said.The Crimson will take the ice in Minnesota tonight for the first time since November 2005. It?...
...past few days, the government’s repressive reaction to the popular protests in Lhasa, capital of Tibet, has put China’s human rights record in the spotlight, precisely as the Olympics loom in the horizon. Seeking to control public perception, the Chinese regime has tried to minimize international exposure to the issue. Yet tanks and soldiers will not go unnoticed forever. Tibetans’ demands for autonomy are reasonable, and it is only a matter of time before even the mighty Chinese government has to give...
...violent reaction against anything Chinese in the streets of Lhasa over the last ten days, Tibetan identity is very much alive and tired of the status quo. Tibetans’ demands have not changed, but their oppressor has. As host of the upcoming Olympics, China is in the spotlight. Quickly, Beijing blamed the protests on the Dalai Lama, oddly accused the Tibetans of “reactionary separatism” and of trying to ruin the Olympics, and cut off access to the region, where The Economist was the only foreign media outlet with a correspondent. Silence and government-sponsored...